Genetic Analysis in Crops
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2023) | Viewed by 12413
Special Issue Editors
Interests: genetic and epigenetic regulation of seed development in maize; alternative splicing adaptations to the climate changes in cereals; the mechanism of cell division and proliferation in cereal endosperm
Interests: plant reproduction; stress biology; epigenetics; bioinformatics; cereals
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Dear Colleagues,
Crops contribute to the global food, energy and environmental changes. Crop genetics studies gene function and regulation, genetic variation and modification, genetic heredity, and gene interaction and their network. Understanding crop genetics has major economic and environmental impacts in the world by providing new insights into improving crop nutrients, resistance to the disease, and resilience to environmental stresses. The traditional genetic analysis includes morphological characterization, mutant screening, gene identification, molecular testing, and biochemistry study, etc. With the aid of the next generation of sequencing and gene editing technique, crop genetics shows great potential in promoting agricultural breeding by improving the crop quality and quantity.
This Special Issue calls for contributions on Genetic Analysis in Crops. We welcome original research, reviews, mini-reviews, and methods related to, but not limited to, the following areas: gene identification and analysis during crop development; gene regulation and molecular mechanism in response to abiotic stress or biotic stress; genetics, genomics and evolutionary study of crop genes; novel approaches to investigate crop genes.
Dr. Fang Bai
Dr. Kevin Begcy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop genes
- genetics and genomics
- crop gene identification and analysis
- crop development
- crop adapt to the climate changes
- crop evolutionary study
- crops in response to abiotic stress and biotic stress
- gene editing, AI techniques and other novel methods in crop research
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